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June 28th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| holy cow!  | 
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June 28th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Amazing pics and a wonderful aquarium. I have enjoyed reading and seeing the progress, though I missed it when you started. Absolutely wonderful job. CONGRATS  | |
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July 6th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Holy Guacamole! I'm jealous! | |
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July 6th, 2009
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| | Moderator
| That's a great-looking tank! Thanks for sharing. | |
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August 7th, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| Time for an update...
It's been another month...the tank is quite a jungle right now. I decided to take a couple photos before the tank gets a huge trim tomorrow.
First, the HUGE sunset hygro plant that was removed from the left rear corner.  
Full tank shot: 
Left side: 
Center: 
Right: 
I will take some more photos tomorrow after it gets a trim.... | |
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August 7th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Beautiful tank. =) | |
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August 8th, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| Thanks Je55*e! And now a photo of the cool down stage where the large bank of CF lights turns off and the 84 watts of t-5 comes on until the moon lights kick in at about midnight.  | |
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August 8th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Wow the growth is out of control. Thanks for the update! Had any issues with that Co2 set up at all, or has it stayed steady? | |
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August 8th, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| Co2 is running strong...haven't had to touch it since initial startup. Refilled the tank once about 2 weeks ago and found out I was off-gassing way too much with all my surface agitation. I have corrected that problem and now the co2 is super steady. | |
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August 8th, 2009
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| | Moderator
| What amazing growth your tank has experienced over the past weeks. It's wonderful!
Ken | |
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August 14th, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| Another weekly update...
The right side got a big trim...The left side didn't change at all since I thought the growth was good on that side.
FTS: 
Left Side: 
Center: 
Right Side:  | |
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August 28th, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| Two thumbs up! I love it! | |
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November 1st, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| Figured it was time for an update. Sorry guys, work has been crazy the last few months and I have not had any time to take photos. I got home too late tonight to see the tank with all the lights on but you can get the idea. The dwarf sag has gone crazy and is taking over the tank... I trimmed back some of the taller plants to give the dwarf sag more room to grow.
Front: 
Right: 
Left: 
Let me know what you guys and gals think... | |
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November 1st, 2009
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| | Fish Mentor
| That looks awesome! You should definantly enter it in the photo contest!  | |
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November 1st, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| Great minds think alike...I was entering it as you were posting haha. | |
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November 2nd, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| I was just thinking of your tank the other day! The dwarf sag is doing great.
Thanks for the update I always looking forward to seeing your progress.
Do you have Otos or Corys with the Onyx sand? Anything you dont like about the sand?I was considering it for my 55 I picked up. Its between that and the normal black flourite. | |
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November 2nd, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| Nate: I didn't end up using any of the black onyx sand. I swapped everything to the aquariumplants.com substrate and have 4 corys and 10 otos in the tank. | |
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November 2nd, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Quote:
Originally Posted by MPrudent  Nate: I didn't end up using any of the black onyx sand. I swapped everything to the aquariumplants.com substrate and have 4 corys and 10 otos in the tank. | Thats right...I forgot.
Substrate decisions.....it's like watching tennis. Back and forth and back and forth. lol
I finally got my Co2 system but I havent set it up in my 20 as I am waiting to get the 55 together. I ended up going with a Sumo set up I got from the swap and shop at plantedtank. | |
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November 2nd, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| Good choice...the sns on the plantedtank is awesome. I picked up 4 eheim 2213's, 2- 2215's, and a 2217 for next to nothing for my new shrimp project coming soon. | |
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November 2nd, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| That's alot of filtration it must be some shrimp project! | |
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November 2nd, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| Well so far we have 8 tanks up and running for the "project". 60G, 55G, 2 - 20G, and 4 - 10G tanks. we currently have RCS, high grade CRS's, snowballs, and blue pearl shrimp. We are using all the 10G tanks to selectively breed the higher grade CRS's. We are running a canister filter on each tank so as to not have a "crash" if we were to use a central filtration system. The only issue was the Aquasoil Amazonia...it can get quite expensive to cover the bottom of all those tanks...8 - 9L bags to be exact and that stuff is not cheap... | |
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November 2nd, 2009
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| | Moderator
| Hello MP. Beautiful! 
Thanks for the update.
Ken | |
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November 2nd, 2009
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| | Moderator
| Fantastic looking tank! Thanks for sharing the pics. | |
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November 2nd, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| Beautiful! i Love your 3 spot gouramis! Have the ballas grown much? | |
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November 2nd, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| That tank is absolutely georgous. I am both envious and jealous of your amazing aquascaping abilities. | |
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November 3rd, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| Thanks everyone... I appreciate all the kind words.
Tony: The babies have grown a bit but I doubt they will ever be as big as their parents. | |
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November 3rd, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
|  Awesome tank! | |
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November 3rd, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| Looking good! What's that grassy foreground plant?  | |
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November 3rd, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| The grassy foreground plant is Dwarf Sagittaria (Sagittaria subulata). I started with 2 little plants about 4 months ago. Once it takes hold it really starts to spread. | |
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November 4th, 2009
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| | Fish Helper
| hi your tank look really great, you could really do alot of stuff with big tank. great work, keep it up.
and the Dwarf Sagittaria are doing well too. | |
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